Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.
Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest.
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.